Russian jet carrying hockey team crashes, 36 dead

[Lars77]

Source: AP

YAROSLAVL, Russia (AP) — A Russian jet carrying a top local ice hockey team crashed while taking off Wednesday in western Russia, killing 36 people and leaving one critically injured, officials said.

The Russian Emergency Situations Ministry said the Yak-42 plane crashed immediately after leaving an airport near the city of Yaroslavl, on the Volga River about 150 miles (240 kilometers) northeast of Moscow. It said one person survived the crash with grave injuries.

There was no immediate word on weather conditions.

The ministry said the plane was carrying the Lokomotiv ice hockey team from Yaroslavl.

Read more: http://www.google.com/hostednews/ap/article/ALeqM5h7oaZPeyFeYJHi3gxh0mAJ7yZxiQ?docId=2cfadcc31ea649d586194c35014bfee7

[Blue_Tires]

1. more info:

https://rt.com/news/passenger-plane-russia-reports-005/

http://www.avherald.com/h?article=4428da13&opt=0

http://www.airliners.net/aviation-forums/general_aviation/read.main/5249965/

http://www.pprune.org/rumours-news/463030-lokomotiv-hockey-team-fatal-crash-russia.html

[mahatmakanejeeves]

2. The team's name was familiar.

Universal Sports, on channel 4.3 in Washington DC, has broadcast Kontinental Hockey League games.

KHL All-Star game to debut at Red Square

Updated: Jan 9, {2011} 10:24a ET

The Kontinental Hockey League of Russia will stage its first all-star game on Jan. 10 in an historical setting.

Teams captained by two league stars will face off outdoors at Red Square in Moscow at 8 a.m. ET

Team Yashin, featuring Russian-born players and led by former New York Islanders center Alexei Yashin now with Lokomotiv Yaroslavl, will take on Team Jagr, made up of players from the rest of the world and captained by former New York Rangers star winger Jaromir Jagr, a native of the Czech Republic now with Avangard Omsk.

Fans picked the starting lineups for each team by an online vote on the KHL All-Stars website. Media covering the league selected six additional players on each team.

I'm wonder how many plane crashes have involved athletic teams. I'm sure there is a Wikipedia category for that.

Edited to add: 2011 Lokomotiv Yaroslavl plane crash

[murphyj87]

4. The entire US figure skating team.....

was killed in a plane crash in Brussels in 1961.

[Auntie Bush]

10. I really felt awful when I heard that. I had been watching that team practice at the Olympics and

talking to one of their mother's who was telling me how hard her daughter worked out and that she had never even been out on a date! She was in her late teens. Poor Skaters! I always felt so badly...kind of like I knew them!

Wow! is it ever pouring out! Just what VT needs.

[Skittles]

20. :(

[Blue_Tires]

5. off the top of my head:

Marshall
Manchester United
Wichita State
Cal Poly
Another one with a Soviet soccer team
That Chilean(?) rugby team they made the movie out of
Evansville
U.S. figure skating team

and yes, I am an amateur air crash reviewer/investigator

[Lars77]

8. Torino FC of Italy

They had one of the best teams in Europe, but lost the entire squad in a plane crash 1949. The team had won 5 championships in a row.

They never recovered to their former glory, and now Juventus FC is the best club in Turin.

They have only won a single championship since then, in 1977.

[Blue_Tires]

12. that's right...I knew there was another soccer team...

[KamaAina]

11. Alianza Lima, a Peruvian soccer side

and I believe the rugby team was from Uruguay.

[Skittles]

21. intrigued

...."amateur air crash reviewer/investigator"

could you tell us more

[Blue_Tires]

23. just a quirky/nerdy/morbid fascination of mine...

I read and re-read hundreds of final reports from U.S., British and French investigating authorities...I've just been interested in the reasons why technology can sometimes fail, and the methodologies in determining the causes...

[Brickbat]

3. So sad. One of my favorite teams when I lived there.

[a la izquierda]

6. Oklahoma State Men's BBall Team...

in 2000 or around then.

[murphyj87]

24. Marshall University football team.....

fans and parents.

[Brickbat]

7. Pavol Demitra and Stphan Liv were among the victims. A sad day for hockey around the world.

[Fool Count]

15. Also Karol Rachunek, Jan Marek and Josef Vasicek of Czech national team,

Robert Dietrich of German national team, Karlis Skrastins of Latvian national team and Ruslan Saley of Belorussian national team.
All are former NHLers. Head coach Brad McCrimmon of Canada and assistant coaches Igor Korolev and Aleksandr Karpovtsev are
also among the dead. All three are well known to hockey and NHL fans. Two people survived the crash - forward Aleksandr Galimov
and flight engineer Aleksandr Sizov. Both are in critical condition. Lokomotiv was one of the strongest and most consistent hockey
teams in Russia. They were traveling to Minsk for their KHL season opener. A very sad day for hockey.

[hang a left]

9. May the Goddess of all that is kind and good

guide your precious souls into the afterworld.

[ProudToBeBlueInRhody]

13. Very, very sad

Brad McCrimmon, a long time NHL'er and the head coach was among the dead.....as well as others familiar to hockey fans everywhere.

[NashVegas]

14. Russia's Lokomotiv ice hockey team in air disaster

Source: bbc

A chartered jet carrying Russia's major league ice hockey team Lokomotiv has crashed on take-off near the central city of Yaroslavl, with 43 deaths.

Two people survived with serious injuries after the disaster, which saw the jet burst into flames shortly after leaving an airport near the city.

It appears many of the team were aboard, heading to Belarus for the season's first match.

Russian reports suggest the Yak-42 plane may have struck a radio mast.

...

All 11 foreign citizens on board the plane were killed, including the team's Canadian coach, Brad McCrimmon, and Swedish goalie Stefan Liv.

Read more: http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-europe-14822582

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:(

[BigDemVoter]

16. Russian Airlines=Terrifying Safety Records

[Fool Count]

17. There is no such thing as "Russian Airlines".

There are at least a dozen of different carriers flying passenger jets in Russia. That was a chartered flight on a plane leased by a small regional carrier.

[BigDemVoter]

18. That's what I meant. . .

I know there is no official Russian Airlines-- I meant literally many Russian airlines. . .

[Lars77]

19. Some Russian airlines have good safety.

Aeroflot especially, who have almost exclusively western jets now. It´s the charters and domestics that can be dangerous.

This particular AC type was banned from the European Union..

[stevedeshazer]

22. +1

[sarcasmo]

25. Sad deal all around. The coach of the Red Wings Mike Babcok went over

to Brad McCrimmons house to check on the wife and kids and they were not home. He was worried they may have been with the team as well. 30-35 year old planes with very little regulation, many of the Wings players say they would never play in Russia for that reason.

[Blue_Tires]

26. update: one survivor has died

http://www.cnn.com/2011/WORLD/europe/09/12/russia.plane.crash/index.html

And preliminary examination of the data recorders show nothing obvious
http://www.flightglobal.com/articles/2011/09/12/361911/inquiry-considers-yak-42-test-as-crash-cause-proves.html